In an economy where long-running festivals are struggling, the Aruba International Film Festival had a solid inaugural run. “For the first year, I think it’s a success,” says one of the festival’s founders, Guiseppe Coioccarelli.

Video-on-demand or movie streaming websites have become an emerging channel for film financing in China as several Chinese video websites revealed new investments on film production at a seminar today at Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), including LeTV Entertainment, Sohu.com, and Voole.com.

The 10th Era New Horizons International Film Festival will dedicate programming to the 10th anniversary of the death of Polish cinema great Wojciech Jerzy Has, as well as offering retrospectives of Jean-Luc Godard and the Brothers Quay.

International co-productions with countries as diverse as Argentina, China, Spain, and Finland are among new projects supported with over $7.2m (€6m) by the two national funds German Federal Film Board (FFA) and German Federal Film Fund (DFFF).

Griffin Dunne was at the inaugural Aruba International Film Festival this week with the world premiere of his new short film Veronica, which is part of the as-yet-untitled Peter Farrelly/Charles Wessler Project.

Manchester will host this year’s Abandon Normal Devices Festival of new cinema and digital culture, which will feature new commissions from internationally renowned artists, filmmakers and cultural provocateurs.

Asia’s largest genre film fest, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will open with the world premiere of the The Experiment, directed by Paul Scheuring (TV’s Prison Break) and starring Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker.

Mike Goodridge confesses to being a cinema shusher who is offended by the loud popcorn crunchers and mobile phone talkers. That’s why exhibitors need to keep upping the ante to draw us into the theatrical experience.

Spain’s film institute, the ICAA, and government backed film finance facilitators, Audiovisual SGR, are co-organising a finance conference to take place in Madrid on July 1 looking at how producers can access private funding for their film projects.

The studios have always acquired independent films for international territories but several have recently stepped up their activities. John Hazelton finds out why and looks at the response from sellers and indie buyers.

New feature films by Margarethe von Trotta, Lasse Hallström and Patricia Riggen are among 11 projects awarded around €5.7m production funding by the Düsseldorf-based Filmstiftung NRW at its latest session.

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